Tag: Arts
Stones – 2000 Light Years from Home Live
by Greg Stereo on Sep.08, 2010, under Got Nothin'
live in concert, performing 2000 Light Years from Home, the b-side to “She’s a Rainbow” and a deep cut from their first psychedelic album which was despised by many fans at the time but later seen as one of many great concept albums of its era.
“2000 Light Years From Home” is a song from ‘ 1967 album .
Written by , it also appeared as the to the U.S. single ““. Jagger reportedly wrote the lyrics in following his conviction on drug charges in June 1967. The working title of the instrumental backing was “Toffee Apple”. The prominent string part is played by Brian Jones on .
The number was regularly featured during the Rolling Stones’ 1989-90 ; until 1997, when “She’s a Rainbow” was also added to the band’s stage repertoire, it was the only track from Satanic Majesties that the band had performed in concert.
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Happy Cinco de Mayo, but also…
by Greg Stereo on May.05, 2010, under Got Nothin'
more importantly – Happy Birthday Ann B. Davis!
From the renowned source of all official knowledge, Wikipedia:
Davis’s first success was as Charmaine “Schultzy” Schultz in the sitcom The Bob Cummings Show on NBC. She auditioned for the role because her friend’s boyfriend was a casting director and recommended her for the part. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series twice out of four nominations for this role. On February 9, 1960, Davis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In the 1965–1966 television season, she appeared as Miss Wilson, a physical education teacher at a private girls’ academy in San Francisco, in John Forsythe’s NBC sitcom The John Forsythe Show. For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, Davis was known for her appearances in television commercials for the Ford Motor Company, particularly for the mid-sized Ford Fairlane models. Davis was featured in commercials for Minute Rice until the mid-1980s.
From 1969 to 1974, Davis played housekeeper Alice Nelson in The Brady Bunch television series. Since then, she has returned to take part in various Brady Bunch TV movies, including The Brady Girls Get Married (1981) and A Very Brady Christmas (1988). She also reprised her role as Alice Nelson two short-lived Brady Bunch spin-off television series: The Brady Brides (1981) and The Bradys (1990), both of which lasted only six episodes. She also made a cameo appearance as a truck driver named “Schultzy”, a reference to her days on The Bob Cummings Show, in The Brady Bunch Movie in 1995.
In the early 1990s, Davis focused on theater. She performed in a production of Arsenic and Old Lace, and a world tour production of Crazy For You.
Davis never completely retired from acting; in her later years she appeared in several disposable mop commercials featuring famous television domestics, and has appeared in a number of Brady Bunch reunion projects, most recently TV Land’s The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special: Still Brady After All These Years. On April 22, 2007, The Brady Bunch was awarded the TV Land Pop Culture Award on the 5th annual TV Land Awards. Davis and other cast members accepted the award, and she received a standing ovation.
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Happy Birthday Herb Alpert!
by Greg Stereo on Mar.30, 2010, under Got Nothin'
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A very happy birthday to legendary musician and recording industry executive Herb Alpert, founder of the Tijuana Brass Brand, the “A” in A&M Records, and composer of “Spanish Flea”, which many people also call the theme to the Chuck Barris game show, “The Dating Game”.
One internet chronicler put it best regarding Spanish Flea:
everything instantly becomes awesome if this is played
This may be the most accurate statement anywhere on the internet.
Alpert’s musical accomplishments include five number one hits, twenty-eight albums on the Billboard charts, eight Grammy Awards, fourteen Platinum albums and fifteen Gold albums.
He disbanded the Tijuana Brass Band in the late 1960′s, released a new album by them in 1971, and re-formed TBB in the mid-1980′s. Alpert also performed an instrumental version of the US national anthem @ the 1988 Super Bowl.
Aside from his own performing musical career, and his work various television executives creating music for Chuck Barris’ many concept shows and others’ commercials, Alpert worked with and produced many popular artists on the A&M label. Notables include The Carpenters, Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66, Liza Minelli, Janet Jackson, and others.
His discography includes:
(1962) LP-101 (mono)/101S (stereo)
South of the Border (1964) LP-108/SP-4108
(1965) LP-110/SP-4110
(1965) LP-112/SP-4112
What Now My Love (1966) LP-114/SP-4114
S.R.O. (1966) LP-119/SP-4119
Sounds Like… (1967) LP-124/SP-4124
Herb Alpert’s Ninth (1967) LP-134/SP-4134
The Beat of the Brass (1968) SP-4146
Christmas Album (1968) SP-4166; reissued as SP-3113
Warm (1969) SP-4190
The Brass Are Comin’ (1969) SP-4228
Greatest Hits (1970) SP-4245
Summertime (1971) SP-4314
Solid Brass (compilation) (1972) SP-4341
Foursider (compilation) (1973) SP-3521
You Smile – The Song Begins (1974) SP-3620
A Treasury of the Award-Winning plus selections from the Baja Marimba Band (1974) Longines Symphonette LWS-500-505
Coney Island (1975) SP-4521
Just You and Me (1976) SP-4591
Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (compilation) (1977) SP-4627
Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela (1978) SP-728
Main Event Live! (1978) SP-4727
Rise (1979) SP-4790
Beyond (1980) SP-3717
Magic Man (1981) SP-3728
Fandango (1982) SP-3731
Blow Your Own Horn (1983) SP-4919
Bullish (1984) SP-5022
Wild Romance (1985) SP-5082
(compilation) (1986) CD-2501
Classics Volume 1 (1987)
Keep Your Eye On Me (1987) SP-5125
Under a Spanish Moon (1988) SP-5209
My Abstract Heart (1989)
North on South St. (1991)
The Very Best Of Herb Alpert (compilation of Tijuana Brass and solo material) (1991)
(1992)
(1996)
Passion Dance (1997)
Colors (1999)
(compilation of Tijuana Brass and solo material) (2001)
(2005)
(2006) Shout Factory
Rise (reissue) (2007) Shout! Factory
Anything Goes (2009) Concord Jazz CJA-31441-02
Quite a list I think you would agree.
So pour yourself a nice martini, sit back in your velvet smoking jacket, and please enjoy the song that makes everything awesome. Thank you and Happy Birthday Mister Herb Alpert:
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In Memoriam: Jeff Healey
by Greg Stereo on Mar.25, 2010, under Got Nothin', Ping.fm
- Cover of
was born on this day in 1966. Born in Toronto, Canada, he lost his eyesight at the age of eight months due to a rare form of cancer. He persevered to become an acclaimed musician, sharing his beautiful talent with the world. Healey actually started playing the guitar at the age of three years old.
An amazing blues/rock guitarist, Jeff Healey released several oustanding records. During his too-brief lifetime, he also toured with many acts, including Dire Straits, , , , ZZ Top, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton and many more.
His discography includes:
1988: (Arista)
1989: Road House Soundtrack
1990: (Arista)
1992: Feel This (Arista)
1995: (Arista)
2000: Get Me Some (Eagle)
2002:
2003: Live at Healey’s (Bolder)
2004: Adventures in Jazzland (Healeyophonic)
2005: (Eagle)
2006: It’s Tight Like That (Stony Plain)
2008: (Stony Plain)
2009: Songs From The Road (Stony Plain)
Healey passed away from cancer in 2008.
Happy Birthday, Jeff.
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iThis and iThat
by Greg Stereo on Jan.29, 2010, under Got Nothin'
mmmm KoolAid….
how much for a ticket to Jonestown?
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Beat a hooker or die after using cocaine….
by Greg Stereo on Jan.08, 2010, under Got Nothin'
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That’s how to succeed in “ Marketing”.
You want to make money online? Easy. Just watch what people are doing offline. Right now, are being shown on starring and .
For those nerds among us, you know the ones who live in their parents’ basement and spend more time talking to people they’ve never met on the internet than interacting with real , a bit of background.
The “ShamWow Guy” is an infomercial celebrity who did a few infomercials I really enjoyed. One of my favorite lines of his is “We can’t do this all day, folks.” Another favorite line is “You’re gonna love my nuts.” He has a fairly heavy -ish accent and spiky hair.
In his Infomercial Life, he has whored for products like the ShamWow! and the SlapChop!
In his off-TV life, he was arrested for allegedly smacking up a prostitute.
Yet his infomercials still run.
And Billy Mays is one the Kings of , with his ALWAYS YELLING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS.
In his Infomercial Life, he hawked a ton of products and his hair was perfect.
In off-TV life, he died of a while flying on an airplane. And was found to have some coke in his system.
And yet his infomercials still run. It’s kind of spooky actually, this zombie-Billy Mays telling me to buy his stuff…from beyond the grave…
But here lies poor , victim of his own dick, losing sponsors by the handful. And dancing on his endorsement grave are “Vince Offer” (you’re gonna love his nuts!) and Billy Mays’ bloated corpse. Their families must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Study on that for a few minutes if you really want to understand marketing. I don’t, I think it’s the devil’s work, but what do I know? I’m just some nerd living in my mom’s basement talking with people I’ve never met in “real life”. What’s so real about it, any way?
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